To maintain a healthy weight for you and your family, you have to eat the right meal at the right time. Your body needs constant energy, hence you have to fuel up your body by eating regularly. If you fast or starve you will be insatiably hungry, and once you start eating, you will end up eating more than normal and chew more calories.

Exercise Regularly

Regular exercising has many benefits ranging from reducing stress, improving mood and allowing the brain to work more efficiently. Besides these mental benefits, it also prevents a range of health problems like obesity, diabetes etc. Overall, it helps you and your family become younger, fitter and disease resistance.

Floss everyday

Good oral health helps in keeping your arteries healthy as well. Regular flossing will reduce the bacteria build up in your mouth. This in turn will prevent the bacteria from entering the bloodstream and trigger problems in the arteries, amongst other heart problems. Hence, if you want to increase your family's life expectancy, then floss twice daily.

Play together

No Indian town or city is ever too far away from a green escape. Plan weekends and vacations in the outdoors and organise get togethers, family camps, family sports events, etc. Apart from keeping your family fit and agile, these trips will help reduce stress and build a connection through communication amongst family members.

Eat right

One of the best gifts you can give to your family is that of adopting a healthier diet. Healthier food options will lead to a healthy lifestyle. Include daily servings of fruits and vegetables, lean meat, and replace fried foods with healthier alternatives.

Start each day with a healthy breakfast

We have always heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and it is true. Make sure everyone in your family eats a good healthy breakfast every morning.

Adults need breakfast to perform their best each day and kids need breakfast even more for their growing bodies and developing brains. Hence, never allow anyone to leave home without breakfast.

Always wash hands before every meal

Eating right and maintaining a healthy lifestyle is not enough to keep you and your family disease free. Besides these habits it is also important to clean your hands before every meal.

Carry a sanitizer wherever you go and use it before eating anything, use it in all the nooks and rub it until your hands are dry. If you are using soap or a hand wash, lather it up nicely and use for a full 20 seconds to kill all the germs and bacteria.

Sleep is essential

See to it that everyone in your family gets 6-8 hours of sleep every day. In order to regulate and repair each cell of the body, it is important to get proper sleep.

If you get inadequate sleep there is a huge tendency that you will wake up irritable, depressed, and unhappy. Lack of sleep will also make you gain weight; put you at a higher risk of heart diseases. Overall it will just ruin your day, your ability to work and won’t allow you to socialize either.

Regular examination

Have regular health screenings, after consulting a doctor, to avoid unnecessary health problems and huge expenses. The health check up can vary by age and gender, but get the common checkups done like blood, blood pressure, cholesterol etc.

Have regular sex, to keep the love alive between you and your spouse. The moment of being in each other’s arms will help to strengthen your relationship and your health as well. Insist on having sex at least twice a week, as it increases life expectancy by three years.

To maintain a healthy weight for you and your family, you have to eat the right meal at the right time. Your body needs constant energy, hence you have to fuel up your body by eating regularly. If you fast or starve you will be insatiably hungry, and once you start eating, you will end up eating more than normal and chew more calories.